tool (RPG) An
IBM programming language developed by
Wilf Hey at
IBM in 1965 for easy production of sophisticated large system reports.
RPG is a
3GL similar to
COBOL, but more concise and supposedly easier for non-programmers to use. It processes its input one line at a time and does not treat tables as conceptual entities.
It was popular on System 34/36
minicomputers.
Versions: RPG II, RPG III, RPG/400 for IBM
AS/400.
MS-DOS versions by California Software and
Lattice.
Unix version by Unibol.
Cross-platform version by J & C Migrations runs on
MS-DOS,
Windows,
AIX,
HP-UX, and
OS/390.
See also
CL,
OCL.
(2004-08-24)